This is a structure alignment problem. On the Palm Words are alligned on a
2 byte boundary. So your wFieldAttribute field actually starts at offset 18
and not 17. You could reorder your structure like this:
typedef struct
{
Word wFieldAttribute;
Word wFieldLength;
Char cFieldName[16];
Char cFieldType;
UChar cFieldDecimal;
UChar ucFieldOffset;
} FIELD_DEF;
and then get 23 bytes
Chris
At 12:01 PM 12/22/1999 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>This seems basic but somehow I got different answer for it:
>
>typedef struct
>{
> Char cFieldName[16];
> Char cFieldType;
> Word wFieldAttribute;
> Word wFieldLength;
> UChar cFieldDecimal;
> UChar ucFieldOffset;
>} FIELD_DEF;
>
>I sizeof all the structure members and it returns me 23.
>sizeof(FIELD_DEF) will return me 24 bytes, instead of 23.
>Why is it so? Where does the one extra byte come from?
>
>Thanks,
>garry
>
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